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A new vision for soybean meal: designer tempeh
In a novel effort to create the next generation of plant-based, protein-rich environmentally sustainable and savory alternatives to animal meat,...
Google Trends reveal how the spread of chickenpox may have been suppressed during the COVID-19 pandemic
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283465Credit: Sabale et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283465 Article Title: Impact assessment of...
New 52 million-year-old bat species discovered in Wyoming, US, is the oldest bat skeleton known
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283505Credit: Rietbergen et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283505 Article Title: The oldest known bat...
Decoding Insomnia: Machine learning model predicts sleep disorders from patient records
A machine learning model can effectively predict a patient’s risk for a sleep disorder using demographic and lifestyle data, physical...
The stripes of the Lesser Pacific Striped Octopus are as unique as our own fingerprints, enabling scientists to track individuals as they grow
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265292Credit: Saumitra Kelkar, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265292 Article Title: Individually unique, fixed stripe configurations of Octopus...
Industry veteran Pablo Velez, RN, Ph.D., named CEO of El Centro Regional Medical Center
In coordination with the El Centro Regional Medical Center (ECRMC) Board of Trustees, UC San Diego Health today announced that...
Henry Ford Health cardiologists first in US to successfully implant novel tricuspid LuX valve
DETROIT (April 12, 2023) – Henry Ford Hospital structural heart interventional cardiologists Pedro Villablanca, M.D., and Brian O’Neill, M.D., are...
Optically controlled metasurfaces for dynamic dual-mode modulation
Dynamic control of terahertz (THz) waves at-will with an ultracompact device is important for THz technologies in biomedical imaging, telecommunications,...
Oral barrier is similar in ceramide composition to skin barrier
Acylceramides and protein-bound ceramides are vital for the formation of the oral barrier in mice, similar to their role in...
Scientists sequence genome of little skate, the stingray’s cousin
Rutgers geneticists, working with an international team of scientists, have conducted the most comprehensive sequencing yet of the complete DNA...
Increased droughts are disrupting carbon-capturing soil microbes, concerning ecologists
Soil stores more carbon than plants and the atmosphere combined, and soil microbes are largely responsible for putting it there....
High-pressure structure of 2D ferromagnet CrSiTe3 clarified in recent study
According to research published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Prof. DING Junfeng from Institute of Solid State Physics...
SwRI joins new NASA institute to qualify, certify additive manufacturing methods
SAN ANTONIO — April 12, 2023—Southwest Research Institute will contribute to a new NASA institute to improve understanding and enable...
Insilico Medicine successfully discovered potent, selective, and orally bioavailable small-molecule inhibitor of CDK8 using generative AI
Insilico Medicine (“Insilico”), a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, today announced that it has successfully discovered a...
‘Carb’ treatment for stroke receives new U.S. patent
A new twist on a drug used to treat alcohol use disorder could double up as a treatment for stroke,...
Most plastic eaten by city vultures comes straight from food outlets
Since the 1950s, humanity has produced an estimated 8.3bn tons of plastic, adding a further 380m tons to this amount...
Scientists uncover the amazing way sandgrouse hold water in their feathers
Many birds’ feathers are remarkably efficient at shedding water — so much so that “like water off a duck’s back”...
Tick-borne Powassan virus is being transmitted in concentrated clusters in New England, Yale study says
A new study by investigators with the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) finds that the tick-borne Powassan virus is...
Bringing racial equity to kidney transplant evaluation
African Americans are more than three times as likely to have kidney failure than Whites but four times less likely...
Knockout of AMD-associated gene POLDIP2 reduces mitochondrial superoxide in retinal cells
“To our knowledge, this is the first functional study of POLDIP2 in retinal cells to understand its potential role in...
